2020-01-20
4 分钟Hi there, this is Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome back to my English learning podcast when I try to help you improve your spoken English and also the grammatical points around that.I WISH and IF ONLY or how to talk about regrets in English.Learn English with me. Improve your conversational skills in my Easy Peasy English learning club https://www.englishlessonviaskype.com/easy-peasy-english-club Support the Show.Advanced English lessons on my YouTube channel https:/...
Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast, where I try to help you to understand the english language a little better.
Phrases, expressions, and some basic grammar rules.
So I hope you're all keeping well, and let me start.
So, first podcast I have is the use of I wish and if only.
And here we're talking about regrets.
So I've mentioned these previous times in the, in the past, but somebody asked me if I would go over those again and just give a few more examples.
So I'm very glad to be able to do that.
So I wish, and if only, when we're talking about regrets, first rule is we use the simple past or past continuous or could with the infinitive to express a regret about the present or the future.
Okay, so the simple past past continuous when we're talking about regrets about the present or the future.
So let me give you a few examples.
I wish you were here.
So you're not, but you do wish that somebody was there to help you with a particular problem.
I wish you were here.
I wish I could talk to you now.
You can't because they're not available.
But I wish I could talk to you now, or I wish you could see this place so you'd really love it if you could.
You can't, and that's the regret.
I wish you could see this place.
Okay, so that's the first rule.